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This Widow Dad Life

In October 2024 my wife of 22 years died unexpectedly. These are my notes from the front lines of grief, gratitude, and solo parenting a teenager.

Newsletter · By Jeff Lanctot · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 26, 2026

    To ALL of the women in my life... (opens the original)

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    To ALL of the women in my life…It would be easy for me to fall back on platitudes of “as the dad of a daughter I’m horrified by...” statements when it comes to the news that’s come out this week about the 7 Cornell students who drugged and raped a young woman at a frat in 2024.The truth is that it may have been 7 men that drugged and raped this woman... for more than seven hours. May God have mercy on us all. But… she was also failed completely by every single man in the chat who chose to not sp

  2. Issue · Aug 7, 2026

    The Great Pretender, Part 1 (opens the original)

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    Trigger Warning: Childhood Abuse. There’s also a fair bit of cursing. Sorry about that. .....My father had a couple of “signature moves” w

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